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[ChasSmith]

On the Evita front, I think the last thing I posted yesterday afternoon was that things were going quite well.

Shortly after that, they went to bloody hell. Well, maybe not BLOODY hell, but certainly plain hell. In one song they had completely omitted programming two consecutive patches (sorry, I know this doesn't make sense to everyone here), so those are missing and the following three or four patches are fine but as a result, they're labeled with wrong bar numbers. For another song they have a set of patches that don't relate to that piece at all, don't ask me what in the hell they DO relate to. So I need to document all of this and get a note off to the programmers. It always amazes me how this would seem to indicate that nobody else has noticed these things. How can that be? Oh, and this COULD be a sign that there are errors in those places in the other keyboard books, so I need to alert our MD.

That's going to be my day. Well, not all of it. I also get to take the trash down to the road this evening. 

[ChasSmith]

For one show several years ago, I believe it was Shrek, I'd documented so many errors in the Keyboard 1 programming (surely one of their more popular and heavily rented shows) that the owner of the company said he should hire me to go through all of their shows. He was mainly joking, but he was right, someone should be doing that.

The 2013 revival edition of Cinderella was also a disaster. We were the first ones requesting the programming for those books, and they were literally pounding it out in time for our rehearsals. It was rife with problems, especially being a rush job, and they were probably sick of hearing from me. He ended up giving us the rentals free of charge in compensation for my having to deal with so many issues, and that's practically unheard of.

[ChasSmith]

Okay, enough with the keyboard talk. Someone else say something!

[Rodzinski]

Patchwork needed!

[ChasSmith]

We could make a nice quilt!

Like the ones Harvey Fierstein is making all the time now, up where I live - you know - some guy that just got a lifetime achievement award for something or other that wasn't fit for broadcasting.

[MichaelG]

Good morning all! I signed up for next term's film class, "90 Years of French Cinema." It starts on the 26th and goes for 7 films, skipping one week in July. My wife has signed up too after seeing how much I enjoyed the last class.

[MichaelG]

It's fun to hear that keyboard talk, DR ChasSmith.

[Jane]

Thanks DR Kevin.

[Jane]

Thank you Freddie.  I have always loved carousel horses.

[Jane]

TOD: Just speaking for myself Tony & Oscar wise.....there are just too many movies, musicals, and shows and PERFORMERS that I don't like.....

[Jane]

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[ChasSmith]

It's great to hear about those film classes, DR MichaelG. It makes me remember things I'd attend in L.A. in the 70s and 80s. Little film festivals here and there, always, but there was a notable (for me) series of informal classes on Hitchcock films that was held in one of the buildings on Hollywood Blvd. For several weeks running, they had the likes of Bruce Dern, Tippi Hedren, James Stewart, John Forsythe, Joseph Stefano, and even Miklos Rosza - I kid you not - watching a film they'd been part of, and talking to us about their experiences with Hitchcock. I have a few pictures and autographs from there, but I wish I'd gotten many more.

In the midst of Covid, I "attended" an online 4-week tribute to Roger Corman, which turned out to be way more rewarding than I'd even thought it might be.

I like that kind of thing, and should be making myself aware of local ones. Your French Cinema series should be fantastic.

[Jane]

Good morning all! I signed up for next term's film class, "90 Years of French Cinema." It starts on the 26th and goes for 7 films, skipping one week in July. My wife has signed up too after seeing how much I enjoyed the last class.

I hope you both enjoy the French Cinema class.

[Laura]

Good morning.

[Laura]

Good morning all! I signed up for next term's film class, "90 Years of French Cinema." It starts on the 26th and goes for 7 films, skipping one week in July. My wife has signed up too after seeing how much I enjoyed the last class.

I hope you watch The Blue Angel, with Marlene Deitrich playing the heartless boozehound harlot Lola Lola.

[Laura]

TOD: I don't know about the live Tony or Oscar shows. I will watch some clips on Youtube later. I wonder if I'm representative of theater goers?

[elmore3003]

Good morning all! I signed up for next term's film class, "90 Years of French Cinema." It starts on the 26th and goes for 7 films, skipping one week in July. My wife has signed up too after seeing how much I enjoyed the last class.

I hope you watch The Blue Angel, with Marlene Deitrich playing the heartless boozehound harlot Lola Lola.

That would be a class in German films. Do you know, DR MichaelG, what the films will be?

[Laura]

Good morning all! I signed up for next term's film class, "90 Years of French Cinema." It starts on the 26th and goes for 7 films, skipping one week in July. My wife has signed up too after seeing how much I enjoyed the last class.

I hope you watch The Blue Angel, with Marlene Deitrich playing the heartless boozehound harlot Lola Lola.

That would be a class in German films. Do you know, DR MichaelG, what the films will be?

LOL. Shows you how much I know about movies.

[MichaelG]

Good morning all! I signed up for next term's film class, "90 Years of French Cinema." It starts on the 26th and goes for 7 films, skipping one week in July. My wife has signed up too after seeing how much I enjoyed the last class.

I hope you watch The Blue Angel, with Marlene Deitrich playing the heartless boozehound harlot Lola Lola.

That would be a class in German films. Do you know, DR MichaelG, what the films will be?

The tentative list is:

• Port of Shadows (1938)
• Les Diaboliques (1955)
• Le Monte-Charge (1962)
• The Soft Skin (1964)
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
• La Balance (1982)
• Summertime (2015)

[MichaelG]

The Buñuel is the only one I've even heard of, and we haven't seen any of these. It seems like good prep for our French opera this fall.

[MichaelG]

I haven't attended any of our local film festivals. They probably wouldn't draw quite the names you list from your LA experiences, DR ChasSmith, but they still often get some pretty good folks as guests. Another retirement project now that I'm watching films more regularly.

[MichaelG]

For many of these classes the plan is to also see clips from adjacent films (same style, same director, or same actor/actress, depending on the focus of the week).

[MichaelG]

Perhaps those clips will get us to the full 90 years, rather than the 80 covered in the featured films. 

[Laura]

Death Becomes Her looks like fun.

[Jane]

For many of these classes the plan is to also see clips from adjacent films (same style, same director, or same actor/actress, depending on the focus of the week).

This is my 4th attempt to comment that it sounds interesting.

[Jane]

Yay, it didn't time out.

[elmore3003]

Good morning all! I signed up for next term's film class, "90 Years of French Cinema." It starts on the 26th and goes for 7 films, skipping one week in July. My wife has signed up too after seeing how much I enjoyed the last class.

I hope you watch The Blue Angel, with Marlene Deitrich playing the heartless boozehound harlot Lola Lola.

That would be a class in German films. Do you know, DR MichaelG, what the films will be?

The tentative list is:

• Port of Shadows (1938)
• Les Diaboliques (1955)
• Le Monte-Charge (1962)
• The Soft Skin (1964)
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
• La Balance (1982)
• Summertime (2015)

No Les Enfants du Paradis? My favorite French Film of all time!

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - eight hours of sleep.

[bk]

Feel better tendonitis for elmore.

[bk]

Strange list of French films - but interesting to include The Soft Skin rather than one of Truffaut's more well known classics - but I absolutely love The Soft Skin - gorgeous Delerue score and great performances.